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ReviewPrion

The complexity and implications of yeast prion domains.

Zhiqiang Du

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Review in Prion. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Amino acid composition predicts prion activity.PLoS computational biology · 2017
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  16. Generating new prions by targeted mutation or segment duplication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Zhiqiang DuDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. z-du@northwestern.edu

Funding

Elucidating the Relations of Heat Shock Factors, Molecular Chaperones and PrionsR01NS056086 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LI, LIMING · 2008 to 2012
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NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS056086NINDS NIH HHS R01NS056086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prions are infectious proteins with altered conformations converted from otherwise normal host proteins. While there is only one known mammalian prion protein, PrP, a handful of prion proteins have been identified in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast prion proteins usually have a defined region called prion domain (PrD) essential for prion properties, which are typically rich in glutamine (Q) and asparagine (N). Despite sharing several common features, individual yeast PrDs are generally intricate and divergent in their compositional characteristics, which potentially implicates their prion phenotypes, such as prion-mediated transcriptional regulations.

Indexed as

AsparagineGlutaminePrionsProtein Structure, TertiarySaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsAsparagineGlutaminePrionsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID22156731
PMCPMC4012399

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